I am trying to display chines characters but its showing ??????????. In my spring-servlet I have
<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basename" value="classpath:messages"/>
<property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8"/>
</bean>
and in my massages.property I have added some chines characters like this
這對中國的考驗
First line of my .jsp file I have
<%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>
If I encode the chines in ascii format then its working fine. but I don't want to do that. Is there anything I am missing.
Please help.
As per their documentation, the properties files are by default read using ISO-8859-1 encoding. You'd need to use unicode escapes like as in \uXXXX for each character beyond the supported range of ISO-8859-1. JDK offers the native2ascii tool for this in the /bin folder. You should then use the converted properties file instead.
E.g. (in command console)
native2ascii -encoding UTF-8 some.properties.utf8 some.properties
Where some.properties.utf8 is the properties file which you saved in UTF-8 and some.properties is the converted properties file which you should instead use in your web application.
The
some.key = 這對中國的考驗
would then become
some.key = \u9019\u5c0d\u4e2d\u570b\u7684\u8003\u9a57
Most IDEs like Eclipse, IntelliJ and maybe also Netbeans (not sure as I've never used it) will automatically do this when you use the builtin properties file editor.
Can you try changing the encoding to UTF-16
{In property file and in spring bean file}
Some extra words :
Chinese characters occupy two bytes so actually it should be strange how they can be represented in UTF-8 format (which ideally should read 8 bits at a time-- my assumption)
Anyways the fact is we can represent chinese character can be represented in UTF-8 format some how.
